Saturday, February 28, 2009

I had my son Jack try to help me figure out some ideas of what to do with my poster. If Katie wanted it to be a challenge for us, she got her wish! I'm stumped! It should be a lot of fun though. I'll keep you posted on what I come up with...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

We've started this blog to document the progress of a show we're putting together at G1988 San Francisco later this year. We've never done this before, so it's sort of a little experiment. The show opens September 18th, so we are very much in the beginning stages. We thought this could be a fun way to see one of our shows come together.

The show is called "Now Playing" and is the sister show of "Cover Band" from G1988 LA last year where each artist painted on an album cover from Rolling Stones Top 100. You can check out the work from last year's show at this link... http://1988covers.blogspot.com/ to get an idea of where we're going with this.

But to change it up a little, this year we're doing movie posters! The whole point is to collaborate with the already existing image on the poster, and keep in mind movie posters are huge, so this is no easy task! And to make it even more interesting, we're picking the poster for each artist. Last year the artists got to choose their top three from a list, but this year it's in our hands. So, some people might be a little out of their comfort zone, but it adds another level to the challenge.

We began by finding the posters, and what better place than LA? Jensen volunteered for the job and is responsible for the assortment, so if any of you artists don't like your poster you can complain to him :) Seriously, he did a great job and supplied us with quite a variety, from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" to "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, which has my favorite tagline of all time: "When he pours, he reigns." Brilliant!

Here are a few teaser picks of a few that were chosen...

We are now in the process of pairing artist with poster. We're still waiting for some posters to arrive, so we haven't assigned all of them yet. So for now I leave you with the very exciting artist line-up...